Gregory Amenoff is scheduled to speak at SAMA on July 17 at 6:30 pm. This is a free event.

Here’s The Wat’ry Shore, a 1995 Amenoff painting in SAMA’s collection:

Here’s a quote from Donald Kuspit’s 1993 review of Amenoff’s work in Artforum:

Even though Gregory Amenoff apparently still believes in content, he is one of the best painters around. The content: weirdly involuted, abstract forms that resemble micro-organisms becomes a vehicle for the sultry, turbulent density of Amenoff’s painterliness. Like all good painterliness, his is emblematic of an emotional state, in his case one fraught with a tension that seems about to burst its bounds. Indeed, without the containment and control provided by organic shape, Amenoff’s painterliness would be blindly impulsive, a kind of vertiginous swirl of violent energy. His painting seems propelled by an ecstatic urgency. As in the best instinctive painting, there is a sense of ecstatic response to the mystery of naturea kind of onomatopoeic recapitulation, in painterly terms, of its generative power.

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